Research Briefing
This Bill attempts to update, clarify and consolidate existing law and guidance about what insurance companies might reasonably expect their customers to tell them when they apply for insurance.
Research Briefing
The purpose of this note is to consider in detail the current system of consumer protection and enforcement under the Government’s new consumer landscape.
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Research Briefing
This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill and has been prepared for the Report and Third Reading of the Bill, scheduled for 8 September 2011. It supplements Research Paper 11/34, prepared for the Second Reading of the Bill in the Commons on 28 April 2011.
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Research Briefing
This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries. This edition includes articles on future growth in the UK economy, and the CPI and benefit indexation. [article:'Future growth in the UK economy' and 'The CPI and benefit indexation']
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This note summarises the legislation concerning health warnings on tobacco packaging.
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The Bill seeks to create a duty on sunbed businesses to prevent use of sunbeds by under-18s, to provide for local authority enforcement of this duty, and to give Ministers powers to make regulations imposing further conditions on commercial sunbed use.
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The purpose of this note is to provide an update on the tobacco control provisions and, in particular, the treatment of Commons Amendment 11 in the Lords.
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On 21st May 2008 the Scottish Government published a new Smoking Prevention Action Plan, 'Scotland's Future is Smoke-free'. This new action plan sets out a programme of measures designed specifically to dissuade children and young people from smoking. The purpose of this note is to consider just one of the measures: removing cigarettes and other tobacco products from promotional displays in shops and supermarkets.
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This note provides information on the current legislation in respect of the display and sale of tobacco products both from retail premises and vending machines.
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Research Briefing
This Note brings together documents relevant to UK legislation on the application of EU Timeshare Directives.
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